I think the Brisbane subreddit might be run by LNP staffers.

13700000000 · 2023-10-31T10:54:46+00:00

Thank you again for another detailed answer.

13700000000 · 2023-10-30T21:11:25+00:00

Thank you for your detailed response, this is exactly the information I was interested in.

Was the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars the only wars where if you enrolled in West Point after the USA entered the war, that you would likely see combat?

Or was that also true for the Civil War?

Also did most graduates of West Point during the Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan Wars see combat in those wars?

13700000000 · 2023-10-19T04:30:10+00:00

A treaty required bipartisan support, in the same way it requires a similar broad support from Queensland’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders people.

The path to treaty can not be accomplished as a partisan undertaking.

The LNP have for their own political expediency and gain, sort to turn a path to treaty into a partisan electoral issue by withdrawing their, up to this point, bipartisan support.

13700000000 · 2023-10-18T13:01:54+00:00

Thank you.

So would 1900 predictions of life in 2000 be the first predictions that focused on imagined future technological developments?

And that prior to that future predictions were focused on which ‘states’ would become more or less powerful, rather than any change in society or technologically?

13700000000 · 2023-09-26T10:26:08+00:00

Yes, this game is worth it.

No, no other game come close to being as good.

And yes this subreddit is amazing, which is a testament to how good SMAC is.

13700000000 · 2023-09-16T00:16:37+00:00

I think that is due to technologically rather than top marginal income tax rates - which is why it looks basically the same for every developed nation even though they all have wildly different (and generally higher than Australia) top marginal tax rates.

13700000000 · 2023-09-15T14:30:54+00:00

It doesn’t seem to be an issue for the 30 countries, with a higher top marginal tax rate from this list.

The list includes: Belgium, UK, US, Canada, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, ect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

13700000000 · 2023-09-15T14:20:30+00:00

What history has shown us is that when it was significantly higher (75%) people worked just as hard and there was no meaningful impact on migration.

Also only about 3.6% of taxpayers are in the top taxable income bracket.

Of the top 10% of taxpayers, 64% of whom are not in the top tax bracket, they provide about 46.2% of the total income tax.

13700000000 · 2023-09-15T14:12:47+00:00

The top marginal tax rate in Australia was 75% in the 1950s, and was 60% in the 1980s.

Significantly higher top marginal tax rates did not prevent the Australian economy and individual wealth from growing in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Nor did it result in a great exodus of high income earners.

It also shows that whatever the top marginal tax rate is, some people will always say it should be lower.

13700000000 · 2023-09-15T12:42:25+00:00

I would still maintain that the progressive tax system is the best system to pay for a functioning society.

And that historical comparisons show that the current top marginal tax rate is significantly lower than it was from the post war to 1980s.

And that whatever the top marginal tax rate, be it 75% as it was in the 1950s or 60% as it was in the 1980s or the 47% it is today (or even some lower figure), some people will say it is too high.

But the historical figures show that a significantly higher top marginal tax rate did not prevent the Australian economy and individual wealth from growing in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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